It was a nice phone but the battery was... miserable

Any major difference between dev and normal?

Just fully unlocked on delivery

S off <:alismirk:230784726615588865>

Also certain signature checks were disabled

IIRC you were able to run unsigned code on certain levels were even s-off couldn't

but I never went that deep

Not even bare metal?

I had the blobs to run code on the A9 on bare metal but I am not sure if I am even allowed to distribute them...

I really never went that deep / never tried anything out

I just got it because of his employee discount

And flashed cyanogenmod on it

You could in theory change the whole low level of the system?

There are blobs needed to initialize the hardware, also there's something based on LK that boots at first

https://github.com/littlekernel/lk

a fork of this guy

Whats the first thing that happens when booting a Android phone? (The moment when the power button is pressed)

On the A9: LK and blobs initialize the hardware, then, LK loads the Linux kernel

iirc

not entirely sure

The drivers for the hardware are all preloaded with the kernel?

I don't think they are full fledged drivers

I wonder is there is a gentoo variant like thing for Android phones

Do it yourself from scratch kind of thing

well there's AOSP

Starting from bare metal scratch

https://github.com/aosp-mirror

You could build AOSP

kek

why is there so much mental health shit in the <#247481427803897866>

Spooky pfp

Because people were talking about ending their lives here and we don't want that @pyril

oh i'm on the wrong server then

:^)

jk

Banndd

😭 pls no

I think it could be possible to install gentoo on a smartphone <:thvnk:332928260004642827>

You can run Linux distro on smartphone

It's really difficult to get banned here as long as you don't behave like a complete degenrate @pyril

Only if you somehow find out to make it work with a touchscreen